: michelle obama said bao bao is a way that they can work together. >> these remarkable animals stand as a symbol of the growing connections between our two countries. >> reporter: and the world can watch the three-month-old grow up by tuning in to the zoo's live cam. china's ambassador to the u.s. >> i think it's a great day.he we have a very good name for the baby panda and everybody is so and excited. >> reporter: vice president biden is skejds to arrive in china this week to discuss economic issues an agenda that likely to be uprooted between the territorial dispute between china and japan.tecting protecting these endapgerred the endang panda is one of the two things that the countries agree on. >> biden is heading over but at least there's some panda porn for everybody. that's not my word. jill is here as you just say because we were talking about, you know cyber monday something that happened eight years ago, this modern form of ago. holiday shopping. and hoppers took advantage of t using faster web browsers at the office. in its first year sales hit $484 million. last year the numbe

lie in state for three days to allow for public viewing. now we know that president barack obama will lead a u.s. presidential delegation to this country. but it's not clear yet which event he will be attending. but by far the biggest public event will be that national memorial service at a soccer stadium in soweto and ultimately nelson mandela's body will be flown to his ancestral village in qunu for a private burial on the 15th of december. >> thank you. >>> joining us from johannesburg is john carlin the south africa correspondent of the london independent newspaper when mandala was freed from prison in 1990, he's the author two of books about mandala's life and times, including the one on which the film "invictus" was based. good morning to you, john. >> good morning. >> i had a chance to read your article yesterday in the uk it was beautiful. you talk a lot about the last time you saw nelson mandela four years ago. what was he like then? >> yeah. well it was almost exactly four years ago actually on the 8th of december, 2009. just before the movie "invictus" was about to com

. president obama is calling for a hike in the national minimum wage. on wednesday the president said that growing income inequality is the defining challenge of our time. this morning fast food workers across the country are holding strikes to demand higher wages. terrell brown is outside a mcdonald's in new york city. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. there are about 200 protesters here in new york city. they have since dispersed and moved on to other locations. there are other rallies in 200 cities across the country including denver las vegas and san diego as workers push for higher wages, $15 an hour more than twice the national minimum wage. nancy delgado makes $8 coin 25 for the work she does at a chicago area mcdonald's. the 27-year-old mother of two has been employed at the fast food chain's franchises for the last ten years and earns the minimum wage in illinois. >> i don't have health insurance. i don't own a car, i don't own cable. i have a cell phone because i need it. i didn't think i was going to be living like this. it's hard. >> reporter: so this summer she joined a

though his legacy is larger than that. i think he saved his country and brought democracy to his country. >> it was so interesting to hear president obama eulogize nelson mandela. this crowd in that stadium went wild for obama. and obama in some ways tying his own inspiration for politics, his own journeys to his own improbable journey to that of nelson mandela and comparing nelson mandela to gandhi and dr. king and abraham lincoln. this was a remarkable address. >> i think it was very personal for the president. and i think he was obviously inspired. his first political awakening came in the anti-apartheid movement. something he said i just really struck me and had resonance with me, that lovely line that nothing was inevitable about nelson mandela's life. i think in some sense he's thinking about himself, too. nothing was inevitable in barack obama's life. and i think he sees this strange ark that they both have been on and kind of weaving together. also very few people who ever in a position of power were able to speak about nelson's legacy in real time. >> and on that point of legacy